Cobalt Hydroxide

Cobalt Hydroxide is useful as a drying agent in paints and inks as well as in battery manufacturing. It has two main colors, a rose-red color and a bluish green color.

Product Definition

Cobalt(II) Hydroxide or Cobaltous Hydroxide is the chemical compound composed of Cobalt and the hydroxide ion with the formula Co(OH)2. It occurs in two forms, either as a rose-red powder, which is the more stable of the two forms, or as bluish-green powder.It has the brucite or cadmium iodide crystal structure.